Tossed: From The National Law Journaltoday: Years after a lawyer handles a client's securities filing, he learns that a third-party left out a key provision. In the interim, the attorney has jumped firms. Is the attorney's new law firm liable? Not according to U.S. District Judge Mariana Pfaelzer, who dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit filed by Impac Secured Assets Corp. against SNR Denton."

Quitting time: "U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn will no longer be holding his usual hearings after hours in his Manhattan courtroom because of the billions of dollars in congressionally mandated federal spending cuts that took effect this month," Bloomberg reports. “As long as sequestration lasts, 5 p.m. will be the stop time,” Glenn recently told lawyers.